Masamichi Kagaya turns Fukushima radiation into art

Masamichi Kagaya turns Fukushima radiation into art

Spéos 2009 Alumni Masamichi Kagaya decided to leave behind as many visual records of the contamination from the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011 as possible. Working in cooperation with Satoshi Mori, Professor emeritus of the University of Tokyo, Kagaya has used a technique called autoradiography to make radioactive contamination visible, covering a wide array of specimens from daily necessities to flora and fauna in the past years.

Called Autoradiograph, his project has been presented in Austria in September 2017 during the Ars Electronica Festival where he already received a prize. The project also has received the Special Jury Award (2nd place) in Lianzhou Foto 2017.